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Match 9.
Portu-Goal Scorers

P-GS vs. "3 Unit Soldiers"

Though only a few changes to the team list, it seemed a very different side to that of last week. Mental preparation was the key - with the boys coming out all guns blazing in order to get the win that would put their campaign back on track. Their performance, particularly in the second half demonstrates the very real threat they pose to the current leaders.

 

Missing regulars D'Silva through a late illness, and Jang through injury, saw the search for Michaelides stepped up - and luckily successful. We did not have time to discuss his whereabouts, but stay tuned for further details on his disappearance. It would seem though that Christopher had been training in his absence - providing a stellar performance and saving the P-GS on many occasions. His only conceded goal of the game was the match's first, and through no fault of his own. Making a brilliant diving save, he parried a 3U Soldier hammer blow into the face of another Soldier, deflected, and it lofted into the goal. The score line then read 1-0, but didn't show the true dominance of the game.

 

Staying cool, the Scorers started to control the game, and in a superb solo run, Captain Kunz flew through the defense to secure the first goal for the P-GS making it 1-1.

 

The Scorers tested their opposition keeper many more times before the end of the half, unlucky to be more goals up - but continually denied by the crossbar and uprights. Despite it all tied up at half time, the boys were confident, as their dominance over the game and high spirits ensured more goals would come.

 

Coming out firing after the break, the 3 Unit Soldiers - a team of mathematicians from rival Selective School, James Ruse, couldn't calculate what was hitting them. The P-GS totally dominated and gave them a lesson in how to play soccer. After a Kunz run, and hold up, he laid the ball back to Mackay whose explosive right foot unleashed a rocket at the goal. Copping a late deflection, it could be called an own-goal, though Paul claimed it. Either way, particularly sweet as it deflected off one of the more arrogant of the Soldiers.

 

Kunz rounded off the scoring, again with a solo run right through the middle, to nuddy the keeper and make the victory all the better.

 

Good signs from this game, with an all round excellent performance. And with Michaelides hopefully secured for the rest of the season after being officially registered as a Scorer, the title is firmly in the boys sights. It will be a tough task, but not impossible.